I keep trying to find some kind of leftist who claims to have antisocial personality disorder, and the only person I have found so far was on a random leftist discord who acknowledged they might instead be an egregiously misdiagnosed autistic person. I have checked the words "antisocial" and "ASPD" through search on this site, and nobody has ever mentioned personally having ASPD.
Google is unusually useless at the task, too. The most relevant things are articles pertaining to the Soviet and Cuban practices of detaining and imprisoning people who are deemed to be "antisocial." After some digging, I found the usual anticommunist talking point about Stalin and Mao being worse than Hitler or something, tacking on a baseless claim that Stalin and Mao may have been antisocial. No meaningful info.
There's no difficulty at all in finding antisocial fascists, cops, chefs, capitalists, or CEOs. Why can't I find an antisocial comrade? Is there some part about leftism that is inherently exclusionary towards antisocial people? Is it a problem to be exclusionary towards antisocial people?
If any comrade here has ASPD I would really appreciate hearing your experience.
I've heard third hand that apparently people with ASPD can develop a kind of empathy if their social environment heavily favors it. Not sure about the validity of that tho
It's a spectrum disorder, like autism. Some people are certainly lost causes, but some could also become decent people.
The thing is, most sociopaths won't want to get "better" because sociopathy is often a beneficial trait for the sociopath: being utterly ruthless can be massively advantageous in this fucked up world of ours.
Makes me wonder if because capitalist society rewards that behavior it has a higher prevalence due to a selection bias of non-sociopathic people dying at higher rates due to poverty etc